This dream is either a sign that I'm working too hard or it's from the Lord...:-)

On the serious side, I've been praying that the Lord would reveal to me how He wants me to serve Him. This is the dream...

There is an earlier dream that I can’t fully remember...the pieces that I do remember are…a room that was sparsely furnished and I was waiting there with or for others – my older son was involved and his friends...I may have been waiting for my son who was engaged in an activity like basketball practice...I think my-ex was there as well but passing through…

Then I dreamt that I was training others at work and then was preparing a training package (we are entering our busy period and I will train others in a few months but we haven't discussed it yet). The training package was a .pdf file of myself that, when opened, would produce a full size 3D clone of me teaching the same training material. When the training was finished, the program would end, and "I" would become a .pdf file again. It was developed to cut down on costs for the company but the Lord told me that He wanted me to use it for the church as well, although I don’t know if He told me this in the dream or as I was waking up…

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in the dream I didn't consider it extra work per se, it was a way of reaching out to more areas in a faster way without having to travel from place to place. Kind of like if I had to train all the members of this group - rather than traveling to everyone's home, I would send a .pdf file of myself to everyone via the computer. When they open the file, a "clone" of me would appear and do the training.

At work, we're working on one of our annual processes that requires managers to make recommendations regarding their employees. We have a new computer system to assist with this process and my assignment was to train the managers. Because they're in various offices around the world, we needed to figure out a way to reach them without having to teach (extreme) after hours to accomodate the time zone differences.

I remembered this dream and realized that the Lord had given me the solution before the problem was identified! I made the suggestion that we could create a Powerpoint slide show with screen shots of the system they would be using and my voice as the audio. This is very much like the dream I had above except that I wouldn't have to become a hologram.

We ended up doing a series of webcasts but my manager appreciated my "think out of the box" approach so we may do this (or create podcasts) for trainings later in the year.

So it is finally happening - I'm not a .pdf but I'm going to become a .pps for real this time! I was asked to put together a training for managers at our company which I did and one of the ways the managers will be trained is through a web-based training with Powerpoint slides. I did a voiceover today but the final version will include video as well as audio....too funny!